Social media users began posting memes of the president taking on CNN after he tweeted last weekend a video showing him in a professional wrestling arena tackling a man with the CNN logo superimposed over his face.

Trump's oldest son has been hammering the network this week over reports that it threatened to publish the identity of a Reddit user who created the video that went viral after the president shared it on Twitter.

CNN denied after backlash that it "blackmailed or coerced" the Reddit user when it said it reserved the right to identify him, but a firestorm of memes targeting the network – which the president frequently targets as "fake news" – have continued.